History & Philosophy
epub |eng | 2018-08-08 | Author:Michael Kinch
7 Lost in Translation It is widely known the royal families of Europe are quite inbred, as evidenced by occasional maladies such as hemophilia and porphyria, which have made for ...
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History & Philosophy
August 9,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:James Le Fanu [James Le Fanu ]
Paralleling the new science of eugenics, The Descent provided the rationale for scientific racism. Darwin scarcely invented racism, and was himself passionately opposed to slavery, though he had no qualms ...
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History & Philosophy
August 9,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-17 | Author:Sandor Ellix Katz
Recipe: Vegetable-Nut Pâté Personally, I have felt quite inspired by some of the food coming out of the raw cuisine movement. Eating daily in a communal kitchen shared with a ...
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Politics & Government
August 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-07-10 | Author:Charles Darwin [Darwin, Charles]
1 It is remarkable how the same disease is modified in different climates. At the little island of St. Helena, the introduction of scarlet-fever is dreaded as a plague. In ...
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Evolution
August 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 1859-08-07 | Author:Charles Darwin
Summary of Chapter. If during the long course of ages and under varying conditions of life, organic beings vary at all in the several parts of their organisation, and I ...
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Evolution
August 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 1968-08-07 | Author:Charles Darwin
CHAPTER VIII HYBRIDISM Distinction between the sterility of first crosses and of hybrids – Sterility various in degree, not universal, affected by close interbreeding, removed by domestication – Laws governing ...
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Evolution
August 8,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Dawkins, Richard
CARGO CULTS In The Life of Brian, one of the many things the Monty Python team got right was the extreme rapidity with which a new religious cult can get ...
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Atheism
August 8,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Wayne Biddle [Wayne Biddle]
THE IMMEDIATE PUSH for moving from the Baltic coast to the Harz Mountains was the devastating RAF raid, which did not destroy Peenemünde’s production facilities, but made it clear that ...
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History & Philosophy
August 8,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Guy P. Harrison
RACE AND DISEASE The idea of “race diseases” seems to come up in every discussion that challenges the reality of races. This common claim says that there are race-specific diseases ...
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History & Philosophy
August 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 2008-07-23 | Author:Thomas Dixon [Dixon, Thomas]
When it came to the concluding section of the book, Darwin reiterated Whewell’s view that God acted in a law-like rather than a miraculous fashion. ‘To my mind,’ Darwin wrote, ...
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Religious Studies
August 7,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-02-28 | Author:Kenneth R. Miller
REWRITING THE PLAN If the concept of facilitated variation has begun to revolutionize our understanding of evolution at the cellular level, developments at a somewhat higher level are even more ...
( Category:
Religious Studies
August 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-29 | Author:Lee Smolin, Roberto Mangabeira Unger [Smolin, Lee; Mangabeira Unger, Roberto]
5. The mutability of the laws of nature CHANGING LAWS Do the laws of nature change? Many philosophers and scientists have claimed that the immutability of the laws of nature ...
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History & Philosophy
August 1,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-07-29 | Author:Chambers, Chris;
Calling in the Guerrillas Changes in OA policies are vital, but, as always, top-down reforms can be too slow and bureaucratic to provide immediate benefits for consumers. It is perhaps ...
( Category:
History & Philosophy
July 30,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-05 | Author:Daniel Loxton
Figure 5.24 The creature reported by officers of the HMS Daedalus in 1848. The Daedalus case became an enduring part of the cryptozoological canon after it attracted a detailed public ...
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History & Philosophy
July 29,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-07-27 | Author:Buchanan, Allen
5 WILL THE RICH GET BIOLOGICALLY RICHER? Remember Michelle and Carlos? They grew up and apart. Michelle became psychologically dependent on Ritalin. She became convinced that she couldn’t think well ...
( Category:
Philosophy
July 28,2018 )
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